Meme time!

April is National Poetry Month, so when you see this, post a poem you like on your LJ.

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockby T. S. Eliot ( Read more... )

This poem was circulating at work today. It's so true too. Enjoy!

The English LanguageWe’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes ( Read more... )

Yoinked from kalquessa:

April is National Poetry Month, so when you see this, post a poem you like on your LJ.

T.S. Eliot's poetry caught my eye in high school, but not being up to such tomes as The Wasteland and struggling to understand the wonderfull Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, I naturally gravitated toward the children's poetry in his Old Possum's ( Read more... )

I keep forgetting to post about this, but I have finally made an icon journal so that those of you who are tired of my icon posts won't defriend me :D. waiting4morning is where you can go for future iconic updates.

Also, a Christmas poem!

Music on Christmas Morningby Anne Brontë ( Read more... )

I've been looking for this poem a while; searched for an hour on poemhunter.com, but found it within ten minutes on Google.

Orangesby Gary Soto ( Read more... )

Yeah, so I've only done this once, but whatever. I can't remember a once-a-week thing apparently.

Hope is the thing with feathers ( Read more... )

April is National Poetry Month, so in honor of the occasion, I give you... a poem. Hah. fernwithy is actually doing something much more interesting and doing a poem a day, but I don't think I have the patience. :-)

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud ( Read more... )

"A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men ( Read more... )

T. S. Eliot is a difficult poet to understand and his poems can be intimidating (I still have not worked up enough nerve to tackle the epic length Wasteland), but he has some clever descriptions that I wish I could emulate.

From "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes ( Read more... )

The Writer's MindBlank paper staring up at me. Intimidating ( Read more... )